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Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. [1] Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer. [2] Shareware is often offered as a download from a website.
This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) defines "open source software" (i.e., free software or free and open-source software), as distinct from "freeware" or "shareware"; it is software where "the Government does not have access to the original source code". [4]
As-Easy-As for DOS and As-Easy-As for Windows was a shareware 32-bit spreadsheet program developed in 1986 for MS-DOS and later for Microsoft Windows.The name is a play on the phrase "as easy as 1-2-3", [1] a reference to the dominant MS-DOS spreadsheet at that time, Lotus 1-2-3 with which it competed for a fraction of the competitor's price. [2]
Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the aim to expand the marketshare of a "premium" product. Popular examples of closed-source freeware include Adobe Reader, Free Studio and Skype.
An independent free software re-implementation of Qmodem for Unix-like systems called Qodem [9] started development in 2003. Qodem is in active development and has features common to modern communications programs, such as Unicode display, and support for the telnet and ssh network protocols. [ 10 ]
All web applications, both traditional and Web 2.0, are operated by software running somewhere. This is a list of free software which can be used to run alternative web applications. Also listed are similar proprietary web applications that users may be familiar with. Most of this software is server-side software, often running on a web server.
List of formerly open-source software Title Orig. free date License change date Initial free license Non-free license Forked replacement Notes Akka: 2009 2022 Apache-2.0: Business Source License [1] [2] ArangoDB: 2011 2023 Apache-2.0: Business Source License [3] Aseprite: 2001 2016 GPL-2.0: EULA that permits personal use but forbids ...